Translators from across the world will gather at Dylan Thomas’ birthplace next week as celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of his birth begin.

DT100 is the 2014 festival commemorating the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth

Translators from across the world will gather at Dylan Thomas’ birthplace next week as celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of his birth begin.

They will arrive at 5, Cwmdonkin Drive, Swansea, on Monday for a day of readings featuring the poet’s work, which will be instantaneously translated into around 10 languages including Korean.

Among the phrases at the event led by Swansea and Cardiff universities in collaboration with the Learned Society of Wales could be the Spanish for “Do not go gentle into that good night” – “No vaya tranquilamente a esa buena noche”.

Geoff Haden who runs the Dylan Thomas House, said: “It will show how the work of Dylan Thomas has inspired people the world over, not just here in Wales.

“It is an innovative experiment which brings together acknowledged scholars, artists and musicians, linking them with the creative industries.

“The invited audience will be encouraged to take part in the live translations giving their own comments and suggestions and these live translations will be digitally edited and printed in real-time through Book Kernel, an innovative event publishing platform developed by creative agency Hodcha.

“Participants will leave the event with their very own live-translated edition of Dylan Thomas poems. Other versions, printed and digital, will follow.”

Dylan Thomas in Translation is a one-day event, led by Prof Alexis Nuselovici of Cardiff University with the participation of poets Philip Gross, Richard Gwyn and John

Goodby who will give contemporary poetical translations of Thomas’ poetry.

The translation day is one of the build-up events to DT100, the year-long festival which will celebrate a century since Thomas was born in Swansea’s Uplands on October 27, 1914.

Around £750,000 worth of public money will be fed into the celebrations, conferences and events marking the centenary.

Thomas, the headmaster’s son who grew up overlooking Swansea Bay, inspired an army of modern-day politicians, writers, actors and others with works such as the funeral favourite Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night and the classic Under Milk Wood.

Folk rock legend Bob Dylan – born Robert Zimmerman – adopted Thomas’ Christian name, US presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter made pilgrimages to his Swansea birthplace, rock star Mick Jagger is still hoping to make a film of his hero and James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan named his son after the writer – as did Catherine Zeta-Jones.

His colourful life, infamous drinking – he died after consuming 18 straight whiskies aged 39 in New York in 1953 – his love affairs with the likes of novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, literary agent Liz Reitell and others, all added to his bohemian reputation.

Among the events planned for DT100 are:

* A Swansea-wide, year-round festival including an exhibition of Dylan Thomas’ notebooks, which are returning to the city for the first time.

* Wales-wide trips and holidays hosted by Literature Wales, including kayaking from Laugharne to Llansteffan and taking a pony trap ride to Fern Hill Farm.

* The Dylan Thomas Boathouse in Laugharne and its writing shed plus various locations in the town will host celebrity, literary and art events throughout 2014.

* 5 Cwmdonkin Drive will see a Dylanathon including a photo-marathon celebrating the poet’s life and work.

* The USA: A Welshman in New York will be a series of performance-based events and encounters using the settings provided by pubs and bars visited by Thomas in the US city.

* The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, will showcase its recently compiled archive of Dylan Thomas material in a major exhibition.

* At Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea, an innovative opera by John Metcalf based on the first radio broadcast in New York of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood will be staged.

* Details are also to be announced for a major world tour of Under Milk Wood.

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